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Holy Hell, what a pain it is to get a Plex Home Theatre Server up and running. Well, properly anyway. We’re an XBMC family, so Plex is not really an option for us. Although, I did give it a shot – all I seemed to managed to do was modify the touch dates on all my video files, which in turn, screwed up the widely used ‘Sort by date’ option in XBMC.

Sooo, at any rate, if you have a Plex server running, this could be cool. On the other hand, if you’re setup with Plex, you’re probably already displaying content on your TV. I suppose if you have multiple TV’s in your home however, AND you use Plex, this could come in handy. My father taught me to never put a TV in the bedroom. I agree, that’s why I sleep with my iPad.

What’s not to love about an app made by people who call themselves ‘Shifty Jelly’. This is my most heavily used app (on iOS) other than the camera app maybe. I look forward to the recently added ‘Send to Chromecast’ feature making it’s way to my platform of choice. Until then, Pocket Casts makes slummin’ it with my Android tablet a pleasurable experience. Great app, great update.

Now this actually looks kind of interesting. I haven’t tried it yet, but I do have children who most likely would find this amusing for at least a couple of minutes. Until one of them decides that Android sucks and demands the iPad that I’ll be relaxing with nearby.

I haven’t tried this because I already grabbed Photo Cast for iOS. There are only so many times I’m pulling up pictures on my phone. This one appears to support video, which is nice. I’m pretty sure Photo Cast does not. But I haven’t used either to any degree of being certain on either of these things. At any rate, it’s only $1.99 so I’ll likely grab this when I have a little more free time. Don’t you hate it when people complain about the price of apps? I mean, it’s $2 for Christ sake. Pony up people.

Photo Cast, or Photo Caster as the installed version of this is called, allows you to… you guessed it, view photos from your iPhone camera roll on Chromecast. Simple slideshow interface. Great way to quickly show all those pictures that you never look at.

Great news. Google has made the Chromecast SDK available to developers. It’ll be interesting to see if Apple begins rejecting apps that are adding the Chromecast button to their apps. We can assume not, based on the existing apps, but if things really take off it’s certainly a direct competitor to Apples air play.

This is a fantastic app to have the ability to Chromecast. If you’re an HBO subscriber, or if you borrow a friends login, you can now send HBO content to the big screen. Good Stuff. Update your HBO GO for Android or iOS to add this functionality.

The SDK’s “developer preview mode” includes terms that prohibit third parties from publicly distributing Chromecast-compatible apps. Among other things, the SDK requires developers to “whitelist,” or register, specific Chromecast devices with Google. This essentially ensures that only pre-approved Chromecasts will work with apps under development.